Sun Leads Me On
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Sun Leads Me On专辑介绍
Montreal-based quartet, Half Moon Run, return with a lush and expansive 13-track second album, Sun Leads Me On, set for release on October 23, 2015 (via Indica/Universal in Canada/Australia and on Glassnote/Universal in the rest of the world). Written mostly between Montreal and a surfing sojourn to California and recorded at the historic and idyllic Bathouse Studios in Ontario with acclaimed British producer Jim Abbiss (Arctic Monkeys, Adele), Sun Leads Me On marks the process of a young band embarking on a very personal quest for beauty and honesty.Trust is the first piece of music to be unveiled from the new album.
“Trust is somewhat of a strange song” proclaims multi-instrumentalist Dylan Phillips. “It's a departure from what you might normally expect from us. It's the last song we wrote and recorded, and it was put together with a lot of fragmented ideas and somewhat of a chaotic energy. It feels a little bit like starting from the end, but leaves plenty of room to work back towards the beginning.”
Following an unstoppable two years of international touring which saw their debut album - Dark Eyes (2012) - rocket past gold status in their home market of Canada, the group became a globally celebrated live act, but returned home in 2014 worn down and “oversaturated with each other and the band”, according to newest member Isaac Symonds. They needed to start over. It is from there, drawn by the sun to California on a collective journey of growth and discovery that the next album emerged.
Sun Leads Me On largely eschews the alt-folk melancholia of its Dark Eyes predecessor, but Half Moon Run are not afraid to veer off the beaten track so long as they remain guided by beauty. The beatific arcadian piping of opener Warmest Regards announces this album; the brief classical sounding arrangements of Throes mark an interlude, while the dark lyrical world of Trust bounds onto the dance floor propelled by some pulsating synthesis.
“Sun Leads Me On came from a place that felt a little bit like being underwater,” explains multi-instrumentalist Dylan Philips, “but we kept powering through because ultimately we knew it was worth it. We had this beautiful thing, this wonderful chance, but we were also working our way through a lot of darkness, losing lots of friends, struggles at home, losing our sense of home, trying to let the music guide us but having trouble even finding that. There was a lot of strife in it all, but at the same time the sun just kept pulling us forward, and we just kept pushing forward and trying to find beauty in what we do.”
“I think it’s a lot more honest” admits frontman Devon Portielje about their sophomore album. “We went down to California and we were surfing every day. A lot of the tunes we were writing there just came out. Dark Eyes took us over seven months to record and we went through two or three recordings of each song, so the vibe got a little lost from what it initially was.”
“Trust is somewhat of a strange song” proclaims multi-instrumentalist Dylan Phillips. “It's a departure from what you might normally expect from us. It's the last song we wrote and recorded, and it was put together with a lot of fragmented ideas and somewhat of a chaotic energy. It feels a little bit like starting from the end, but leaves plenty of room to work back towards the beginning.”
Following an unstoppable two years of international touring which saw their debut album - Dark Eyes (2012) - rocket past gold status in their home market of Canada, the group became a globally celebrated live act, but returned home in 2014 worn down and “oversaturated with each other and the band”, according to newest member Isaac Symonds. They needed to start over. It is from there, drawn by the sun to California on a collective journey of growth and discovery that the next album emerged.
Sun Leads Me On largely eschews the alt-folk melancholia of its Dark Eyes predecessor, but Half Moon Run are not afraid to veer off the beaten track so long as they remain guided by beauty. The beatific arcadian piping of opener Warmest Regards announces this album; the brief classical sounding arrangements of Throes mark an interlude, while the dark lyrical world of Trust bounds onto the dance floor propelled by some pulsating synthesis.
“Sun Leads Me On came from a place that felt a little bit like being underwater,” explains multi-instrumentalist Dylan Philips, “but we kept powering through because ultimately we knew it was worth it. We had this beautiful thing, this wonderful chance, but we were also working our way through a lot of darkness, losing lots of friends, struggles at home, losing our sense of home, trying to let the music guide us but having trouble even finding that. There was a lot of strife in it all, but at the same time the sun just kept pulling us forward, and we just kept pushing forward and trying to find beauty in what we do.”
“I think it’s a lot more honest” admits frontman Devon Portielje about their sophomore album. “We went down to California and we were surfing every day. A lot of the tunes we were writing there just came out. Dark Eyes took us over seven months to record and we went through two or three recordings of each song, so the vibe got a little lost from what it initially was.”